What is everything made of?, sentence 9
Particles in air and water are always moving and bumping, so smells and colours spread out on their own.
Who acts: Particles · What happens: move, bump, spread out · To what, where: smells, own
This is a sentence of the lesson «What is everything made of?» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Particles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Particles | particle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 moving | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 air | case |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Particles | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 water | cc |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 air | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 moving | aux |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | _ | 8 moving | advmod |
| 8 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bumping | cc |
| 10 | bumping | bump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 moving | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spread | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 spread | advmod |
| 13 | smells | smell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 colours | cc |
| 15 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 smells | conj |
| 16 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 moving | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 spread | compound:prt |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 own | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 own | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spread | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 moving | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present · progressive | Particles in air and water | always property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bump | gerund | Particles in air and water not said here | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spread out | participle · passive | smells and colours | particles's own | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on own=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:chemistry:001-what-is-everything-made-of.lesson:9.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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